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This Article was published by The Huffiington Post: Shifting Baselines and Endangered Species Recovery The world is always changing, bringing bold breakthroughs in technology and conservation, as well as formidable challenges. In 1970, 20 million Americans celebrated the first Earth

This Article was published by The Huffiington Post: In Extinction’s Way: The Wolverine and Climate Change It’s the stuff of legends. In April 2016, a rancher shot and killed a wolverine in North Dakota. Officials identified the animal as M56,

This Article was published by The Huffiington Post: Quantifying Wildness; Tracking Wolves and Elk in the Rockies Twenty years ago, I was a stay-at-home Montana mom living in a place where the large carnivore population (wolves, bears, cougars) outnumbered the

This Article was published by The Huffiington Post: Recovery of the Great Bear? As was the case for other large carnivores in the lower 48 United States, by the 1960s grizzly bears were nearly extinct. This species had dropped to

This Article was published by The Huffiington Post: El Lobo’s Uncertain Future Lobo Week, March 23-30, 2015, marks the 17th anniversary of the Mexican gray wolf’s return to the wild. However, this wolf subspecies’ tortuous recovery journey actually began over

This Article was published by The Huffiington Post: Safe Passages, or How Did the Grizzly Bear Cross the Road? It all began with roadkill. Banff, the crown jewel of the Canadian national parks, is a paradox. Big, primeval wildness

This Article was published by The Huffiington Post: Wolves in a Tangled Bank The wolves’ return to Yellowstone and the subsequent recovery of plants that elk had been eating to death in their absence has become one the most popularized

This Article was published by The Huffiington Post: The Carnivore Way: All Who Wander Are Not Lost In 2014, a 20-year-old grizzly bear named Ethyl made an epic 2,800 mile walkabout through Montana and Idaho. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

This Article was published by The Huffiington Post: Citizen Science Comes of Age: Everyday People Doing Extraordinary Science Those of you familiar with my work know that twenty years ago I was a stay-at-home mom, living with my husband and

This Article was published by Island Press: The Wilderness Act at 50: Where the Carnivores Are Editor’s note: September 3 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Wilderness Act. To commemorate the anniversary, we asked a small group